Informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar:
— Their speech was full of slang expressions.

synoniemen: slang expression, slang term.

Roget 851: vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism^†; mauvis gout [Fr.], bad taste; gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact; ill-breeding etc. (discourtesy) 895.    courseness etc. adj.^†; indecorum, misbehavior.    lowness, homeliness; low life, mauvais ton [Fr.], rusticity; boorishness etc. adj.; brutality; rowdyism, blackguardism^†; ribaldry; slang etc. (neology) 563.    bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie [Fr.].    [Excess of ornament] gaudiness, tawdriness; false ornament; finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant^†; baroque, rococo.    rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub^†; clown etc. (commonalty) 876; Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu etc. 876; frump, dowdy; slattern etc. 653.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 579: inelegance; stiffness etc. adj.; unlettered Muse" [Gray]; barbarism; slang etc. 563; solecism etc. 568; mannerism etc. (affectation) 855; euphuism^†; fustian etc. 577; cacophony; words that break the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw; marinism^†.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: jargon, bargoens

A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).

synoniemen: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular.

Roget 563: neology, neologism; newfangled expression, nonce expression; back-formation; caconym^†; barbarism.    archaism, black letter, monkish Latin.    corruption, missaying^†, malapropism, antiphrasis^†.    pun, paranomasia^†, play upon words; word play etc. (wit) 842; double-entendre [Fr.] etc. (ambiguity) 520; palindrome, paragram^†, anagram, clinch; abuse of language, abuse of terms.    dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism^†; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.    dog Latin, macaronics^†, gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel; babu English^†, chi-chi.    figure of speech etc. (metaphor) 521; byword.    colloquialism, informal speech, informal language.    substandard language, vernacular.    vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity.    jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot; St.    Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang.    pseudology^†.    pseudonym etc. (misnomer) 565; Mr.    So-and-so; wha d'ye call 'em^†, whatchacallim, what's his name; thingummy^†, thingumbob; je ne sais quoi [Fr.].    neologist^†, coiner of words.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: Bargoens, argot, boeventaal, dieventaal, groepstaal, jargon, koine, kringtaal, kunsttaal, omgangstaal, slang, spreektaal, vakjargon, vaktaal, volkstaal ... meer laten zien
Pools: żargon, argot, slang

Use slang or vulgar language.

Fool or hoax.

synoniemen: befool, cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, take in.

Nederlands: bedotten, beetnemen, foppen, inlappen

Abuse with coarse language.